Creole Exam Language History 5

Question 1

Which region is home to the largest number of distinct creole languages in the world?

Accepted Answer

The Caribbean

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Southeast Asia

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West Africa

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The Indian Ocean islands

Question 2

Mauritian Creole, spoken in the Indian Ocean, has which European language as its superstrate?

Accepted Answer

French

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English

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Portuguese

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Dutch

Question 3

In which century did linguists begin formally recognizing creole languages as legitimate, fully developed linguistic systems rather than 'corrupt' dialects?

Accepted Answer

20th century

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17th century

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18th century

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19th century

Question 4

The trade jargon Chinook Jargon, used in the Pacific Northwest, is notable because it developed from contact between:

Accepted Answer

Indigenous tribes, French-Canadian fur traders, and English traders

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Spanish and Native American traders

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Chinese immigrants and English settlers

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Russian colonizers and coastal tribes

Question 5

Which feature do most Atlantic creole languages share, believed to be retained from African substrate languages?

Accepted Answer

Preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers

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Grammatical gender marking

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Tonal phonology as the primary distinction system

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Extensive case suffixes

Question 6

Creole languages formed in areas of intense language contact are sometimes said to emerge through 'imperfect learning.' This view is most associated with which theory?

Accepted Answer

The imperfect second-language learning hypothesis

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The language bioprogram hypothesis

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The superstrate theory

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The monogenesis hypothesis

Question 7

The monogenesis hypothesis of creole origin proposes that all Atlantic creoles descended from a single source. What was that proposed source?

Accepted Answer

A Portuguese-based pidgin used along the African coast

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Latin spoken by missionaries

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An ancient Mediterranean trade language

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Spanish used in the colonial Caribbean